A typical work day involved many and varied tasks, depending on the current need, from managing administrators schedules and meetings, to providing a wide range of operational support not only at the state administrative level but across the state to 23 county and Indian program offices who provide educational programs to support farmers, businesses, homemakers, youth and much more. Co-workers were many and always were there as a team. Hardest part of the job - juggling some intense multiple needs at any one given time. Most enjoyable - helping people get their jobs done, providing information and support, and working with a great team of faculty, staff and administrators.

Excellent lab workplace that furthers experience with field of research and conducting experiments/experimental protocols

Lab Assistant (Current Employee) – Tucson, AZ – May 3, 2015

I work in an Evolutionary Biology lab in which I either come in and perform chemical extraction/purification procedures, HPLC, or analysis of my experimental data or that gained before I worked here which needs to be analyzed. I learned an incredible amount of experimental protocols that extend to many other fields of research on top of the experience I had from previous lab work. I loved that the professor and the graduate student I worked directly under genuinely cared about my future career and graduate school goals, and gave me an excellent opportunity to build my laboratory repertoire and have a better chance at being accepted to a great school and have the background to get a research position. I feel that I now have more qualifications in a wide field of research procedures to qualify for the positions I apply to because of this job.

Administrative Assoctiate (Former Employee) – University of Arizona Office of the Dean – May 13, 2015

I spent the day managing the front while doing jobs. I enjoyed working with and briefly chatting with all my colleges. The management was completely understanding when emergencies come up. I found it challenging to come up with things to do when it was slow. That is after cleaning. I started spending the time reorganizing and cleaning files and electronic systems. In addition, I took classes to learn other aspects of UAccess. I like dealing with customers, parents and people who need help.

Since my job was mainly transcription, I did a lot of it at home as well as at the College of Nursing and the Cancer Department. I felt that what I did was very useful to the growth of medical understanding and study. The subject matter was important, and I considered it a very good opportunity for me to learn. My coworkers where very kind. Doctors usually were incredibly busy, but I still appreciated working for them.

The academic environment at U of A is very good for professional development, the undergraduate students are eager to ask questions, even though I can tell the mathematical foundations for difference students vary in a great extent, I see students come to my office hours and attend my review session trying to solve their inquiries and challenges. This in turn drives me to prepare for the best before every lecture, and devote all my time during lecture. I have only seen 1 or 2 students attempting to cheat during exam, and they stopped the attempts after my warnings. The professors I have worked with are all very organized and good at the subjects they are teaching. They used different techniques for various levels of economics courses.Overall, I have accelerated valuable experience interacting with students, and learning from professors in their curriculum design, and lecturing.

Also, it is a high pressure working environment, since I have my own course works as Ph.D. student, I always encounter exam grading tasks during my own finals. I have managed to balanced them well.

I worked in the OR at UAMC for almost 3 years. I have to give them some respect for giving me a chance and hiring me out of school. The first year was wonderful, but as new management came in and certain things started to change, everything seemed to go down hill. The new management decided to change many of our policies to "improve" the work environment, but really just hindered peoples' work ability. Since I didn't bow down to all the new changes, I was eventually fired due to an attendance policy that states you may only have a certain number of "unscheduled" absences in a given period of time. The catch is, "unscheduled" includes being sick, even with a doctor's note. While some managers gave their employees the benefit of the doubt, I was not given such a break. I was sick with strep throat and a viral eye infection during the same month, which put me over the limit of absences. Even with doctor's notes, they fired me anyways. This is no way to treat an employee who has been there for years. Very disappointed in the new leadership.

Pros

Great co-workers and surgeons for the most part, you get your breaks most of the time

Cons

Management, ridiculous policies that are only enforced on certain employees, lowest wages in the city

There was a lot of cleaning, checking on customers, and delivering food everyday. Most people did not know that at sonic you are supposed to tip the skaters, and sonic did not make an effort to make this known. Phones were forbidden to be on your person, and you were not allow to stand around. I had a very hard time being allowed to take my breaks, as required by law, and often was not allowed to sit down even though I had been on my skates for hours. The management was not very understanding, and although I talked to the manager and left letters telling her that she was repetitively scheduling me for more hours than I said I could handle in my application and in the interview, as I was also a high school student at the time. The management also forbid the employees during one meeting to request time off to go to prom, which I found to be insensitive.

Pros

Sometimes allowed to have discounted food when convient to management, right next to a strip club so guys come in late at night with "left over" singles.

Great, calm place that enhances organization. wonderful student management, nice coworkers, no complications. i enjoyed the independence on the job and the flexible scheduling. it was great to work in a place where everyone was friendly and the job at hand was wonderful.

A great place to work, with such variety that the job rarely gets boring. Management takes worker safety seriously and backs it up with monthly training. Teamwork is the norm, and everyone feels like family!

This is a one-year contract job, so I didn't have the compensations and benefits full-time worker have. I usually worked 1-2 hours per week and got paid $40/week. I learned more on how to promote and marketing to the students, how to use words to attract university students and how to solve their questions.

The hardest part in this job is to approach these students on internet. However, what I did is that I went to the oversea studying website and find out who might be interested, in the meanwhile, created public group on popular social media.

The most enjoyable part is similar to the hardest part, that is talked to the students and actually solve the problems for them.

A typical day at work would be processing tickets from customers, being on the computer, or listening to music. We got to be on our phones or watch Netflix in our spare time so it was really nice. My co-workers were students as well as I was. It was a work-study position.

It's a very good place to work in, interacting with the teachers and students in a learning environment.It's less than half time but a good job to learn about teaching and what it takes to give a good class and have the students' attention.